Reflective second harmonic generation near resonance in the epitaxial Al-doped ZnO thin film

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 10666-10671

  Liu, S W ^a   Weerasinghe, J L ^a   Liu, J ^b   Weaver, J ^b   Chen, C L ^b   Donner, W ^c   Xiao, Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; DOPING (ADDITIVES); HARMONIC GENERATION; ZINC OXIDE;

AZIMUTHAL ANGLE; KLEINMAN'S SYMMETRY; NONLINEAR SUSCEPTIBILITY TENSOR;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 34548090012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.010666     Document Type: Article

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